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Will Kimbrough was writing about his wife and daughters. And then he was singing about his wife and daughters, and audiences were responding in all the right ways. And then he was putting an album together, and he wound up deciding to open the album with his family song, “Three Angels.”

“Then I thought, ‘If I put that sweet song there, I can’t put some cynical, smarty-pants pop songs after it,” said Kimbrough, 45. “But it’s fine. I think I’m worn out of irony. I don’t hate it, but I’ve done it. Maybe irony is a young man’s game. After a while, things aren’t ironic anymore: It’s just life.”

Kimbrough will likely sing “Three Angels” twice on Friday, March 12 at The Basement, as he plays two album-release celebration shows, one at 7 p.m. and the other at 9 p.m. He’ll be able to squeeze all of Wings’ songs into the set lists if he so chooses, as the 10-song album runs less than 40 total minutes.

That’s somewhat unusual, as album girth seems to be expanding in these digital days, but Kimbrough’s recent Beatles listening helped inspire him to pare back.

“I got the Beatles mono box set, and I put Hard Days Night and Help on one CD: These are 29-minute records, and between there it was something like 28 songs in about an hour, and every one is a classic. I’m a fan of the jam at the gig, and of making it concise on the record. And if there was ever a time for two-minute songs, it’s now.”Continue reading →